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The default assumption on this USA based site run by a USA based company is "USA" unless otherwise stated.

Then it should be news.ycombinator.us

.com is an global domain.

“[.com] was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense … and remains under ultimate jurisdiction of U.S. law“

That hardly seems relevant? Literally all TLDs are ultimately under US jurisdiction, given that the ICANN is under US jurisdiction.

US government built it, a US company runs it, and US law applies to it.

It’s silly to complain that US companies and US-focused sites shouldn’t use it.

>US government built it, a US company runs it, and US law applies to it.

All also true of .ie and .fr and .eu and whatever other TLDs you might want to choose.

>It’s silly to complain that US companies and US-focused sites shouldn’t use it.

Nobody complained about that.